All For Nothing

On today's episode of Welcome to My Life, it just seems like I've just been having a streak of bad luck for the last few days, with the latest one happening today.

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Well, like some of you might know, for the past week, I've been trying to register for a service known as the NYSC (National Youth Service Corp), and what that meant was that I had to get up early every single day, from last week Tuesday to yesterday, being Monday, trying to make sure that I was among the first people to be at the shop where the registration was taking place.

For that whole week, I did nothing else but focus on that, putting every other thing on hold, almost like nothing else mattered other than me getting registered. Well, I went through all of that frustration but finally got it done yesterday.

So I thanked God and went ahead to text my family to let them know that I was done with the first step of registration (which happens to be the hardest step), only for me to wake up this morning to news that the second step has commenced, but unfortunately, I can't participate in it because I wasn't among those selected to.

So apparently, these guys (the guys in charge of the service) had put out a statement that they don't have the capacity to accommodate everyone who registered for the program and that they could only accept about 40% of those who registered, so now the rest of us have to wait till next year to try again.

Hearing that news made me weak at my knees because for the past few weeks, the only thing I've been looking forward to is getting out of this place because the whole place has become too depressing for me to be in it.

I wake up every morning, fantasizing about the day I will eventually get to leave, thinking it was just a few years away, but now, due to how nothing works as usual in this godforsaken place, I need to wait a few months and then begin the process all over again.

I'm tired, and I'm just going to sleep now.